History WesternAnimation / JusticeLeagueGodsAndMonsters

** [[spoiler: Tina revealing to be Plantinum may be a nod to the 1993 miniseries (now in CanonDiscontinuity) which retconned the Metal Men's origins to have been originally humans. Will Magnus has a crush on Sharon (who became Plantinum), who's engaged to be married to Will's brother Mike (who becomes Gold).]]

A prequel series of shorts (listed under the subtitle of ''Chronicles'') was released online on Creator/YouTube shortly before the movie came out. The series proved successful enough that a second season was announced to premiere in 2016, set to incorporate new takes on [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Mary Marvel]], Comicbook/{{Steel}}, and Comicbook/GreenLantern. However, [[WordOfGod director Sam Liu]] confirmed that this was cancelled due to other projects.

'''Justice League: Gods and Monsters'' is a 2015 movie of the WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies line. It is not based on the comic of a similar name, but features an original story by Creator/BruceTimm of [[Franchise/{{DCAU}} DC Animated Universe]] fame. While his [[TimmStyle art style]] makes a return compared to other recent DC animation, the movie is essentially an {{Elseworld}}s tale.

'''Justice League: Gods And Monsters''' is a 2015 movie of the WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies line. It is not based on the comic of a similar name, but features an original story by Creator/BruceTimm of [[Franchise/{{DCAU}} DC Animated Universe]] fame. While his [[TimmStyle art style]] makes a return compared to other recent DC animation, the movie is essentially an {{Elseworld}}s tale.

'''Justice League: Gods And Monsters''' is a 2015 movie of the WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies line. It is not based on the comic of a similar name, but features an original story by Creator/BruceTimm of [[Franchise/{{DCAU}} DC Animated Universe]] fame. While his [[TimmStyle art style]] makes a return compared to other recent DC animation, the movie is essentially an {{Elseworld}}s tale than anything resembling the DCAU or indeed the comics DCU.

In this AlternateUniverse, the Justice League is just the trio of ComicBook/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/{{Batman}} and ComicBook/WonderWoman and they're not the same people we know and love. Superman is General Zod's son, not Jor-El's and he was adopted by an illegal immigrant couple instead of the Kents; Batman is Kirk Langstrom, normally the villain Man-Bat, instead of Bruce Wayne; and Wonder Woman is Bekka of the ComicBook/NewGods, not Diana of the Amazons.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Averted. Despite a lot of people being openly against the Justice League, it is revealed online they are still considered very popular. This to the point of some even wishing they would just take the world over.

** Victor Fries who's normally Mr. Freeze elsewhere is just a regular scientist rather than an ice themed super villain.

* AgeLift: Oddly, in this universe Lex Luthor is much older than he normally is. When Superman first lands on Earth as an infant, Lex is already at least a middle-aged man using a cane.

** Kirk Langstrom in the main DCU is also known as [[PettingZooPeople Man-Bat]], a B-List member of Batman's rogue's gallery. In this film, he actually ''is'' Batman.
* TheAtoner: Bekka is racked with guilt over her involvement in Highfather's take over of Apokolips that led to her husband's death. [[spoiler: At the end of the movie she decides to go back and try to right her wrongs along with Lex Luthor.]]

* BelligerentSexualTension: Lois Lane and Superman have a bit of this, while Steve Trevor and Bekka have a lot. There is also a bit of {{UST}} between Bekka and Superman.

** Superman initially believed that his father General Zod was a benevolent man and that if people had listened to him from the start Krypton could have been saved. This was changed after [[spoiler: Luthor]] showed him proof that Zod was instead a tyrant whose drilling of Krypton's core lead to its destruction, and that the one warning of Krypton's destruction was the man who would have been his father if not for Zod hijacking the project.
** Likewise Kirk's view of [[spoiler: Magnus]] was destroyed after [[spoiler: the latter revealed both that his jealousy of Kirk lead to him murdering Tina and that he was the one responsible for framing the scientists murder on the Justice League]].
** Bekka realizes that for all his preaching about doing the right thing, Highfather and New Genesis in general were really no better than Darkseid and the rest of Apokolips after they killed her husband, Darkseid's son Orion, after promising to spare him.

** All three of the Justice League are different characters in the regular DCU. Superman is basically [[ComicBook/LastSon Chris Kent]] with Lara as his mother, Batman is Kirk Langstrom, the villain usually known as Man-Bat and Wonder Woman is Bekka, Orion's wife.

** Tina is basically Francine, Kirk's wife, with a different name. Her name however is meaningful as [[spoiler: her replica is Platinum of the ComicBook/MetalMen who's also called Tina in other iterations.]]

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: [[spoiler: After showing Superman the recording that reveals what his father is like, Luthor's reason for keeping it from him is because he was afraid how he'll react, that he might try to follow in his footsteps. Before leaving, Superman told Luthor if he shown it to him sooner things could have been different, because at that point the Justice League and the Government are about to come to blow (thanks to Magnus).]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Superman:''' In some ways, I'm as much your creation, as my father's.]]

* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: Bekka has to keep reminding Trevor of this, though half the time he's doing it to taunt her.

** He also hints at it in both the tie-in short and the film itself -- in the former [[spoiler: he tries to help Brainiac (essentially a little kid/cyborg in this incarnation) who is suffering severe PowerIncontinence to control his powers and when it's clear that that won't work, he kills him as a quickly and painlessly as possible]]. In the film, when he sees [[spoiler: the Stones' skeletons curled up together, he softly exclaims "Dios mio".]] In both cases, he looks genuinely grieved, showing that he really does care.

** After his truck crashes into a ravine, it actually looks like Ray Palmer might have given the nano-drone pursuing him the slip as it starts walking off in the opposite direction... and then his cellphone rings.

** Likewise several plots and elements recall themes from the Franchise/{{DCAU}}. [[spoiler:The fusion between Luthor and Metron is reminiscent of their collaboration at the end of JLU, Luthor likewise offers Superman an orb with Kryptonian data similar to Superman and Brainiac's orb. The nanites and the robots are similar to the Dark Heart nanobots fought by the JLU. The countermeasures of the government against the Justice League recall the Cadmus Story and the Justice Lords. And an alternate universe where the Justice League took over (or considering taking over) the world.]]

** This isn't the first time Luthor is shown to be older than Superman. Post-Crisis, initially Luthor was old enough to be a childhood friend of Perry White.

** Superman's mother though is the same person, which seems to imply her blood has a bigger influence on him than ever seen before, given that for all his flaws Superman at his heart is still a good well-meaning person.
** On the 'Nature' side; in this universe Orion was never traded to Highfather for Scott Free, however despite being raised by the likes of Granny Goodness and his father, Darkseid, Orion still comes across as a decent guy who genuinely cares about his people and wants peace between Apokolips and New Genesis.

** General Zod drilled into Krypton's core to fuel his war machine, but when it inevitably destabilized the core, he blames Jor-El for not providing adequate proof that this would happen.
** [[spoiler:After Will Magnus reveals he killed his wife several years earlier, he's quick to explain it was an 'accident', and pass the blame onto Tina for constantly nagging at him to help Kirk cure his condition (which he deliberately caused). ''Then'' he goes on to claim if a brilliant mind like his was capable of doing something so terrible, that must mean the entire human race was doomed to failure]].

'''Tina:''' ''(irritated)'' God Will, don't start that again.

* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Bekka and Orion seemed perfect for each other. Sadly when he finds out of Highfather's betrayal, he is slain like everyone else, despite Bekka wanting him to be spared.

* ProperlyParanoid: Lex Luthor explains he kept the Kryptonian technology from Superman because he didn't want him to find out his father wasn't a benevolent scientist, but a [[TakeOverTheWorld tyrannical madman]] out of fear Superman may decide to follow in his footsteps ... at the start of the film Superman muses how the world might actually be better if he and the rest of the Justice League just took over.

* AnyoneCanDie: While in an interview Bruce Timm mentions that part of his reason for [[spoiler: killing Harley Quinn was a form of TakeThat to what he saw as her being Flanderized]] he also says that if he is willing to kill such a popular character and one important to him personally it shows the audience that no one is safe and nothing will be predictable.

* FanDisservice: Harley's [[{{Stripperific}} "outfit"]] would be be quite the subject of MaleGaze... except her SlasherSmile and homicidal tendencies are so frightening that it makes her even ''more'' disturbing.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Harley's fridge is filled with severed limbs and heads... and a grape soda.

* BloodlessCarnage: Despite the fact Bekka is hacking into [[{{Mooks}} Kobra]] with her sword and Steve is shooting them, there's not a splash of blood or entry wound to be seen. This is a bit odd, since the previous episode ''Twisted'' had a good amount of blood and gore.

* UnwantedAssistance: Steve Trevor does not want Wonder Woman's help, even though he obviously could use it. At first Bekka continues to help regardless of Steve's complaints ... until Giganta appears at which point she's more than happy to let Steve work alone, at least until she can get him to admit he ''needs'' her help.

* InfantImmortality: Averted as a young Victor Stone a.k.a. Cyborg is killed alongside his father after a HopeSpot.

* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Averted with kid Brainiac.]]

A prequel series of shorts (listed under the subtitle of ''Chronicles'') was released online on Creator/YouTube shortly before the movie came out. The series proved successful enough that a second season was announced to premiere in 2016, set to incorporate new takes on [[{{Shazam}} Mary Marvel]], Comicbook/{{Steel}}, and Comicbook/GreenLantern. However, [[WordOfGod director Sam Liu]] confirmed that this was cancelled due to other projects.

* TwoGuysAndAGirl: This was Kirk, Tina and Will's dynamic. [[spoiler: Eventually deconstructed as Will's jealousy over Tina's affection for Kirk leads to him killing her in an accident and trying to frame Kirk for the scientist' murders.]]

** [[spoiler: Superman someway deconstructs this in the climax: "Someone once asked if I wanted to save the world or rule it. Today it's going to be hard to tell the difference."]]

In this AlternateUniverse, the Justice League is just the trio of ComicBook/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/{{Batman}} and ComicBook/WonderWoman and they're not the same people we know and love. Superman is General Zod's son, not Jor-El's; Batman is Kirk Langstrom, normally the villain Man-Bat, instead of Bruce Wayne; and Wonder Woman is Bekka of the ComicBook/NewGods, not Diana of the Amazons.

The voice cast features Benjamin Bratt (''Series/LawAndOrder'') as Superman, Creator/MichaelCHall (''Series/{{Dexter}}'') as Batman, Tamara Taylor (''Series/{{Bones}}'') as Wonder Woman, Creator/PagetBrewster (''Series/CriminalMinds'') as Lois Lane, Creator/JasonIsaacs (''Film/HarryPotter'') as Lex Luthor and Creator/CThomasHowell (''Series/{{Southland}}'') as Dr. Will Magnus.

'''''Justice League: Gods And Monsters''''' is a 2015 movie of the WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies line. It is not based on the comic of a similar name, but features an original story by Creator/BruceTimm of [[Franchise/{{DCAU}} DC Animated Universe]] fame. While his [[TimmStyle art style]] makes a return compared to other recent DC animation, the movie is essentially an {{Elseworld}}s tale than anything resembling the DCAU or indeed the comics DCU.

* WhamShot: Batman's is followed by [[spoiler: Batman baring his vampiric fangs.]]

* WhamLine: From Batman:

** WhamShot: Which is followed by [[spoiler: Batman baring his vampiric fangs.]]

** There's a tiny little SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker hanging from the ceiling.

* HiddenDepths: Superman in the tie-in media is shown as far more than the JerkWithAHeartOfGold he comes off as. He hated his powers growing up because he accidentally crippled his sister with them, made his way around the world ''without'' using his powers, and is shown as much more cautious then you would think a version of Superman like this would be when it comes to his powers.

-->[[spoiler:'''Will Magnus:''' It's funny how things can change so quickly. After a while, you don't even recognize yourself anymore.]]

** Superman's mother though is the same person, which seems to imply her blood has a bigger influence on him then ever seen before, given that for all his flaws Superman at his heart is still a good well-meaning person.

* CompositeCharacter: This Universe's version of ComicBook/HarleyQuinn shares more with ComicBook/TheJoker than her mainstream counterpart when it comes to [[AxeCrazy her state of mind]].

** [[spoiler:After Will Magnus reveals he killed his wife several years earlier, he's quick to explain it was an 'accident', and pass the blame onto Tina for constantly nagging at him to help Kirk cure his condition. ''Then'' he goes on to claim if a brilliant mind like his was capable of doing something so terrible, that must mean the entire human race was doomed to failure]].

* {{BDSM}}: Implied to be how Bekka and Steve's sex life works.

'''Superman:''' (smirks) Under us. ''(Takes a sip of his brandy)''

* WouldHurtAChild: When Silas Stone's son tries to protect him from the Metal Man, it incinerates them both.

* LarynxDissonance: Not quite to the extend as [[Franchise/{{DCAU}} the]] [[WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanApocalypse times]] Creator/EdwardAsner voiced her, but Granny Goodness here still clearly voiced by [[Creator/KharyPayton a man]].